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Robbie

Robbie

@Robbieiscoolio

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Robbie
Robbie@Robbieiscoolio·
@TBrit90 If you vote Reform then you're just voting for Russia so 🤷‍♂️
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Robbie@Robbieiscoolio·
@WealdAnsetla @haravayin_hogh Back when I played EUIII I would change country every time the ruler died. It definitely made things interesting in a game that rewards multi-decade planning.
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🌲 Weald Ansetla 🌲
🌲 Weald Ansetla 🌲@WealdAnsetla·
@haravayin_hogh Problem with games like EU4 is once you reach a certain level of power/stability, you know that unless you make a critical mistake, you've basically already won. It's just a matter of grinding to the end. There's just no point to play outside of the early game.
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tiki@crazyzombienerd·
@edwest @SingleTicket371 Great info. I wonder how many more. I met a retired UK civil servant in Zanzibar. She told me she had retired early. She still has a council house in London for when she visits & has built 1 house for herself & her husband & 2 more for her children in Zanzibar.
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Robbie
Robbie@Robbieiscoolio·
@ScottJonesy @wallaceme They're copying how people do it on reality television where the call needs to be picked up by the microphone. That's the level of brainpower they're working with.
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Scott@ScottJonesy·
@wallaceme I'm up for bringing back the death penalty for these muppets. Also, WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE HAVING CONVERSATIONS ON SPEAKER FUCKING PHONE!
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Robbie@Robbieiscoolio·
@Navier_Tokes @LondonNewLibs In an simplified world. But this country combines a housing crisis with low-wages and a shortage of people working in public services.
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Lost@Navier_Tokes·
@Robbieiscoolio @LondonNewLibs So council housing and universal credit are being used to subsidise low wage labour, that seems like a highly inefficient allocation resources, if the service workers disappear then wages will rise
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London New Liberals@LondonNewLibs·
Half the people defending the amount of social housing in London are saying: “Acshully, you should be made to subsidise my preferred class of people because I personally find you boring” That’s it. That’s their argument.
David Madden@davidjmadden

Exactly wrong. It's the London of oligarchs and second homes that is a gigantic misallocation of resources. Social housing is a massive part of London's greatness as a city. And there is no "economic productivity" without working class labour.

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Robbie@Robbieiscoolio·
@LondonNewLibs You're being a bit wanky with statistics here: Can a retired person be working class? I do think retired people should think about moving out of London but that's not the conversation you appear to be having.
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AnglofuturistParty@FuturistPartyGB·
I think the point I am making is that certain people like vibrancy, edginess and multiculturalism because what this preference says about them. (Liberal values, openness, cosmopolitanism ) However their friendship groups are often very upper middle class and often not particularly diverse. So this is a performative expression of taste rather than an actual revealed preference.
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Robbie@Robbieiscoolio·
@FuturistPartyGB @LondonNewLibs So when does this happen: "Let’s go there it is so multicultural and vibrant” Is your complaint that Tower Hamlets is a human zoo?
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Robbie@Robbieiscoolio·
@FuturistPartyGB @LondonNewLibs Are we still talking about the council houses being in Central London with high housing demand? Or do you think rich people have walking tours of Tower Hamlets?
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AnglofuturistParty@FuturistPartyGB·
More than that they typically don’t even interact with these people as people rather they like them as a kind of socio-economic background scenery to their actual middle class friendship groups. “Let’s go there it is so multicultural and vibrant” (I am a good left wing sophisticate)
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Robbie
Robbie@Robbieiscoolio·
@bdquinn Almost by definition you wouldn't pay for it with current revenue. It's about future revenue which is why there were a lot of arguments for Britain and Germany to borrow more in the 10s to invest. Bond markets care about credibility.
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Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦@bdquinn·
Yeah, what bond traders don't like seeing is a spiraling deficit trajectory. They don't care if your government spending to GDP ratio is 40% or 25%. They care if you're paying for it with current revenues or just borrowing yourself into a death spiral.
Kristian Niemietz@K_Niemietz

Twitter has convinced itself that bond market traders are all crazed Randians who hate the state. Not so. The Swedish and the Danish government can borrow at sensationally cheap rates. Bond markets like sound public finances. They don't care about big state vs small state.

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Pete R@PeteR1040766·
@SandyofCthulhu @anishmoonka Curiosity. Curiosity has long been known as a sign of intelligence. Apes aren't curious about their world. People like to point out that there isn't a single mark of human intelligence that animals don't also exhibit: tool use, language etc. Curiosity is the differentiator.
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Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
In the 1970s, David Premack wondered if a chimpanzee could be taught to ask a question. He taught Sarah 130 plastic word-tokens. She answered his questions easily. After years of work, she had never asked one of her own. Sixty years later, no signing ape has. A four-year-old human asks about 25 questions an hour. Paul Harris at Harvard counted them: kids ask their parents around 40,000 questions between ages two and five. Premack even worked out a method for teaching an ape to ask. Hide a snack the chimp expects. Wait for her to sign "where is it." He never bothered running it on Sarah. She spent her sessions answering his questions, never asking her own. A normal kid, he pointed out, asks "what that? who making noise? when Daddy come home?" on a loop. Washoe the chimpanzee, the first one taught American Sign Language, knew 250 signs. She could request food. She could sign her name. She once saw a swan and called it "water bird," a sharp invention for an animal she had no sign for. She never asked what the swan was, or where it came from, or anything else. Koko the gorilla knew about 1,000 signs. Kanzi the bonobo understands more than 3,000 spoken English words. Nim Chimpsky, Herbert Terrace's chimp at Columbia (named to mock the linguist Noam Chomsky), strung 125 signs into more than 20,000 combinations. His longest stretch was "give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." He never asked a thing. Joseph Jordania, a researcher in Melbourne, thinks this is the line between us and them. To ask a question, you first have to know that the person across from you knows something you don't. Apes do not seem to get to that step, even after a lifetime of being talked at by humans. Human kids cross that line around their fourth birthday. Apes never do.
Ezzy@ezzyskii

Scientists have been communicating with apes via sign language since the 1960s; apes have never asked one question.

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Robbie@Robbieiscoolio·
Hey @LidlGB please can you update the app so that the users unread receipts are marked? It makes doing my budget easier if I can see what I've already logged. Thanks!
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Robbie@Robbieiscoolio·
@peterrhague The strange thing is how people STILL struggle with the concept that what people find attractive could be different to an imagined woman made by committee in the media.
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Robbie@Robbieiscoolio·
@TrueSlazac I strongly recommend the sci-fi 'Qualityland' for this. Qualityland being the corporate rebrand of Germany.
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Robbie@Robbieiscoolio·
@Andr3jH They'll literally do anything to get us buying bananas in plastic packaging
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ᐱ ᑎ ᑐ ᒋ ᕮ ᒍ@Andr3jH·
This is the kind of shit you get up to when you stop having sex as a society.
Sovey@SoveyX

Did you know Korea sells “one-a-day” banana packs? Instead of every banana ripening at once, each one is at a different stage. One is ready today. The next one is ready tomorrow. The last one is still spiritually in college, “experimenting.” Simple. Genius. Solves the entire banana problem. What do you think? Would you prefer your bananas this way?

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Robbie
Robbie@Robbieiscoolio·
@nikicaga No it's sold as rapeseed in the UK, I have a bottle in my kitchen right now. Stop following an obvious schizo nonsense account.
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Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸@nikicaga·
Its unpopularity probably has little to do with its original purposes, but with its name being fucking "rapeseed"
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole

Fun fact: rapeseed oil is sold as "vegetable oil" in the UK because the original name was bad for marketing. During the Industrial Revolution, it lubricated steam engines. That was the job. In the 1950s, the FDA classified it as unfit for human consumption. The erucic acid was toxic to the heart. Banned. In the 1970s, Canadian scientists bred a low-acid variant, rebranded it "canola," and walked it onto the dinner plate. Now it's drizzled on salads, baked into bread, and labelled "heart healthy" on the bottle. Industrial lubricant. Renamed. Repositioned. Sold to the public as the responsible choice. In addition to calories, it generously provides oxidative stress, inflammation, and a steady contribution to every chronic disease the country is currently drowning in.

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Robbie
Robbie@Robbieiscoolio·
@Birdyword The sting of male pattern baldness
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Robbie@Robbieiscoolio·
@DrProton85 @KILLTOPARTY Truth. This is definately one of those sex things that is never discussed like there's somehow not going to be an issue a guy experiences when hooking up with a new partner. Then, much like guys not getting it up under pressure, the insecurity gets exploited by new-evangelicals.
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Dr. Proton
Dr. Proton@DrProton85·
@KILLTOPARTY I actually have this "problem" with any new women. The first time can take over an hour. One chick took at least 4 times to finally bust, but after you finally bust you can bust every time after that. That's w/o any medication. It's psychological.
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“Bad” Billy Pratt
“Bad” Billy Pratt@KILLTOPARTY·
Recreational ED meds are the male version of Botox
“Bad” Billy Pratt tweet media
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